second是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 第二； 次等的， 二等的n. 秒v. 赞成， 附和v. (临时) 调任， 调派，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo led the way, and as if used to waiting on ladies, Laurie drew up a little table, brought a second installment of coffee and ice for Jo, and was so obliging that even particular Meg pronounced him a 'nice boy'.
-- A second look showed her that the living eyes, under the bushy eyebrows, were kinder even than the paint-ed ones, and there was a sly twinkle in them, which lessened her fear a good deal.
-- On the afternoon of the second day, she went out to do an errand, and give poor Joanna, the invalid doll, her daily exercise.
-- asked Meg kindly, for Jo had gone off in another laugh at Amy's second blunder.
-- It would have been bad enough to go to her seat, and see the pitying faces of her friends, or the sat-isfied ones of her few enemies, but to face the whole school, with that shame fresh upon her, seemed impossible, and for a second she felt as if she could only drop down where she stood, and break her heart with crying.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
-- It seemed no bad idea; but upon second thoughts I dismissed it.
-- Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but it was the second floor back.
-- They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
-- At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver had not been within the walls of the workhouse a quarter of an hour, and had scarcely completed the demolition of a second slice of bread, when Mr. Bumble, who had handed him over to the care of an old woman, returned; and, telling him it was a board night, informed him that the board had said he was to appear before it forthwith.
-- 'Hold your tongue, Beadle,' said the second old gentleman, when Mr. Bumble had given vent to this compound adjective.
-- 'The magistrates are not called upon to pronounce any opinion on the matter,' said the second old gentleman sharply.
-- For a second or two, Oliver glanced up the street, and down the street, and over the way: impressed with the belief that the unknown, who had addressed him through the key -hole, had walked a few paces off, to warm himself; for nobody did he see but a big charity -boy, sitting on a post in front of the house, eating a slice of bread and butter: which he cut into wedges, the size of his mouth, with a clasp-knife, and then consumed with great dexterity.
-- The Jew glanced round the room, as his companion tossed down the second glassful; not in curiousity, for he had seen it often before; but in a restless and suspicious manner habitual to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Observing his second daughter employed in trim-ming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with: 'I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.'
-- Everybody said how well she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice!Only think of THAT, my dear; he actually danced with her twice!and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second time.
-- 'I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time.
-- 'Yes; but he seemed to like his second better.'
-- At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only cho-sen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, 'How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way!I declare after all there is no enjoyment like read-ing!How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
-- I was a little surprised that I had not hit him on the head; however, I took up the second piece immediately, and though he began to move off, fired again, and shot him in the head, and had the pleasure to see him drop and make but little noise, but lie struggling for life.
-- We made signs of thanks to them, for we had nothing to make them amends; but an opportunity offered that very instant to oblige them wonderfully; for while we were lying by the shore came two mighty creatures, one pursuing the other (as we took it) with great fury from the mountains to-wards the sea; whether it was the male pursuing the female, or whether they were in sport or in rage, we could not tell, any more than we could tell whether it was usual or strange, but I believe it was the latter; because, in the first place, those ravenous creatures seldom appear but in the night; and, in the second place, we found the people terribly frighted, es-pecially the women.
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